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The following is a condensed version of a report by Melody Kramer that was written for the Carolina Data Desk, which is part of the UNC School of Media and Journalism‘s Reese News Lab, and funded by the Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media. Names and organizations have been made anonymous for privacy reasons. Kramer interviewed journalists and civic hackers both inside and […]

Let’s take a look at how you can use R to scrape data from text in a standard form across many pages. We’ll start by going over some of the key functions that will help us, and then we’ll walk through an example.

Web scraping can be a powerful tool for journalists, allowing them to quickly gather large amounts of data. It can also be confusing and intimidating at times. In this post, we’ll look at some things to consider when deciding whether web scraping is a good solution for your data needs.

In a recent release, Democracy North Carolina analyzed voter turnout in the state in last November’s election among different demographic groups. In this post, we’ll see how you can replicate this analysis for your county.